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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
James Clarke, John Hollins, Thomas Moore, Thomas Tenant and
Gilbert Middleton, or any three or more of them, be and hereby are
appointed a board, to examine any person who shall desire to be
admitted a pilot, he first producing a certificate from the court of
the county where he resides of his honest and good behaviour, and
paying to the said board the sum of four dollars, and to the register
of the board seventy-five cents, and if, upon public examination,
the person shall appear to the board of sufficient ability, skill and
experience, they shall grant him one of three kind of warrants of
appointment and licence, according to the qualification of such person,
thereby authorising such person for one year from the date of
such warrant, either to pilot vessels of any draught of water, or
vessels not exceeding twelve feet draught, or vessels not exceeding
nine feet draught; and every person receiving a warrant of appointment
and licence agreeably to this act, shall thereafter be reputed
a lawful pilot; but no person shall be entitled to receive a warrant
as aforesaid as a first rate pilot, unless he hath employed himself at
least three years in the business of piloting vessels of any draught,
or unless he hath served at least four years as an apprentice to the
business of piloting; and every pilot shall renew his warrant of licence
every year, in the month of April or May, and that no renewals
shall be granted at any other time, or new licence applied for,
unless the pilot had been carried to sea, or confined by sickness, so
as to prevent his application within that period; and every first rate
pilot shall pay two dollars, and every second rate pilot one dollar
and fifty cents, and every third rate pilot one dollar, to the register
of the board for every renewal; and the board may renew any
licence or not as they may think proper. |
1803.
CHAP. 63.
Board of examiners
appointed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every member of
the said board,
before he proceeds to examine any person applying for a warrant as
a pilot under this act, shall take the following oath, or affirmation,
(to be administered by any justice of the peace,) to wit: " I
——
" ——, do swear, (or solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm,)
" that I will impartially examine and enquire into the capacity,
" skill and experience, of any applicant or applicants, in the
" art of piloting in Chesapeake bay, and the rivers thereof, and
" will admit them as I find them qualified, or reject them if I shall
" find them unqualified, without favour, affection or reward." |
Their oath. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said board
may make and
use a common seal, and alter and renew the same at their pleasure,
and may appoint a register, who shall enter in a book to be provided
for that purpose all applications to, and all other proceedings
of, the said board; and the register shall countersign all warrants
for pilots granted by the board, and every such warrant shall be
under the seal of the said board. |
May make and
use a common seal. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
lawful for any person
to act as a pilot, notwithstanding his having obtained a warrant
as aforesaid, unless he, or the company to which he belongs,
shall keep one sufficient boat, of twenty-six feet keel straight rabbit
at the least, and decked and well found, under the penalty of
one hundred and fifty dollars for every vessel such person shall undertake
to conduct or pilot; and the name of every boat, and the |
No person to act
as pilot, unless he
keeps a boat 26
feet keel. |
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